Japanese aircraft carrier Chiyoda

Chiyoda in 1944 after conversion into an aircraft carrier
History
Japan
Name	Chiyoda
Namesake	Chiyoda, Tokyo
Ordered	1934
Builder	Kure Naval Arsenal
Laid down	14 December 1936 as seaplane carrier
Launched	19 November 1937
Commissioned	15 December 1938
Recommissioned	21 December 1943
Reclassified	15 December 1943 as light carrier
Refit	1942 to 1944
Fate	Sunk during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, 25 October 1944
General characteristics
Class and type	Chitose-class aircraft carrier
Displacement	11,200 long tons (11,400 t) (standard) 15,300 long tons (15,500 t) (full load)
Length	192.5 m (631 ft 7 in)
Beam	20.8 m (68 ft 3 in)
Draft	7.5 m (24 ft 7 in)
Installed power	56,000 shp (42,000 kW)
Propulsion	2 × geared steam turbines 2 × shafts
Speed	28.9 knots (53.5 km/h; 33.3 mph)
Complement	800
Armament	Seaplane tender: 4 × 12.7 cm/40 Type 89 naval guns 12 × Type 96 25 mm AA gunss Aircraft carrier 8 × 12.7 cm/40 Type 89 naval guns 30–48 × Type 96 25 mm AA guns
Aircraft carried	Seaplane tender 24 × floatplanes Aircraft carrier: 30 × aircraft
Aviation facilities	Seaplane tender: 4 × catapults Aircraft carrier: 2 × elevators

Chiyoda (千代田, "Thousandth-Generation Field") was a light aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. Originally constructed as the second vessel of the Chitose-class seaplane tenders in 1934, she continued to operate in that capacity during the Second Sino-Japanese War and the early stages of the Pacific War until her conversion into a light aircraft carrier after the Battle of Midway. She was sunk during the Battle of Leyte Gulf by a combination of naval bombers, cruiser shellfire and destroyer-launched torpedoes.^[1]